The Lightning 50 Returns! Who Are the Fastest Growing Online Retailers in the UK and USA?

As global e-commerce jumps to $26.7 trillion, Brightpearl is re-launching its search for the ‘Lightning 50,’ a league table of the UK and USA’s fastest growing e-commerce businesses from the last twelve months.

Brightpearl is taking a look at the revenue data behind the UK and US online shopping space to produce two definitive lists of the 50 fastest growing e-commerce brands over the past 12 months across Britain and the States. 

Entries are now open for the Lightning 50. Businesses can enter for the chance to be included in the final list here: Lightning 50 – Brightpearl. Entries close on Friday 12th August 2022. The final line-up will be announced in September of this year. 

The Lightning 50 league table of the fastest growing online retailers is free for businesses to enter, and open to e-commerce businesses with annual turnovers from £$1M-250M.

Last year’s Lightning 50 included  a list of phenomenal online retailers – including Biscuiteers, Holland & Cooper, Candy Kittens and the overall winner – Au Vodka.

Brightpearl is now seeking to reveal the definitive league table of the fastest growing online retailers for 2022 – both in the UK and the US. 

The Lightning 50 is free for businesses to enter, and open to e-commerce businesses with annual turnovers from $1M-$250M. Firms must submit two full years of revenue data for 2020 and 2021 to be eligible for the Lightning 50 which is set to be revealed later this year. 

“It’s truly the Hyper-Scalable Era of e-commerce – our data shows many online retailers reporting incredible growth rates and having huge success over the past 12 months,” said Brightpearl CMO Sara Arthrell

“There has been a big shift to online shopping since the onset of the pandemic, and online deliveries have been one of the consistent highlights for people, even as Covid-restrictions have ebbed and flowed. We want to use the Lightning 50 to celebrate and shine a light on some of the incredible work online firms have been doing throughout the pandemic.

“The Lightning 50 only takes into account one metric when scoring businesses – growth,” added Sara Arthrell. “We encourage any high growth brand to enter so they can get the recognition they deserve.”

“Winning the Lightning 50 has given us the chance to step back for a brief moment and see that we’ve achieved something that’s pretty awesome,” said Jordan Major, Head of E-Commerce, Au Vodka, speaking on winning the Lightning 50 last year, and what it meant to the business.

Entries are now open for the 2022 edition of the ‘Lightning 50’ here.